re: #454 Killian Bundy

The Navy has been doing low-level (and low visibility, for obvious reasons) funding on “cold fusion” for many years. I was tangentially familiar with the SPAWAR interests involved.

The Navy has long felt the need to find ways of providing energy to their craft - large and small, other than petrol (limited, becoming more scarce) and fission reactors (hazardous waste issues, costly.) Not only have they been interested in cold fusion, the Navy also was the last refuge (for funds) for the Polywell fusion people.